UCF was so close, but yet so far away from NIU

BGSU33 · Post by **BGSU33** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 11:18 pm

Man how I wish UCF would have been able to hold on and beat NIU tonight! A NIU loss coupled with BG's win today would have pulled us even with NIU in the standings - although we'd still be lagging due to head-to-head. But if UCF would have won, we'd only need NIU to lose once more and win out to pass them up. Now, BG is still left with having to win out and still needing NIU to lose twice. That really puts a damper on my mood tonight. If NIU's last second FG would have missed, this board would have been jumping with chatter! Oh well......

BGSU33 · Post by **BGSU33** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 11:23 pm

Another note from the game, UCF took the lead 28-27 with just :45 seconds remaining when NIU drove 40 plus yards in the final seconds to set up the game-winning field goal.

BGGrad01 · Post by **BGGrad01** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 11:19 am

They drove 40-plus yards on 3 straight pass plays to the tight end!! I really hope that they didn't run the same play 3 straight times with success against UCF, but I certainly wouldn't doubt it.

orangeandbrown · Post by **orangeandbrown** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 11:29 am

Holy Moly! That was a lot closer than I thought. Man!

BGGrad01 · Post by **BGGrad01** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 12:02 pm

Collegefootballnews.com ranks UCF as the worst team in D 1-A and 8 of the bottom 13 are the MAC cellar dwellers.

http://www.collegefootballnews.com/2004 ... nkings.htm

BGSU33 · Post by **BGSU33** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 1:13 pm

A UCF win would have been huge for BG. I almost wish UCF wouldn't have even been so close to winning now that they lost. They were just 45 seconds too short!

FalconKing · Post by **FalconKing** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 7:59 pm

Yeah, NIU might take it as a wakeup call and play tougher against the MAC lightweights because of the close call.

BGSU33 · Post by **BGSU33** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 8:03 pm

I'm still trying to figure out how in the heck we rolled into NIU this year not prepared to face what we came head-to-head with? After what happened last time we were in Dekalb and playing a tough team on the road that was picked in front of us on nearly every preseason poll and publication, how weren't we ready? I think last year's win over NIU gave us a false sense of security this season out there. I really wish we could play them over again.

kdog27 · Post by **kdog27** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 9:52 pm

To me it was encouraging to see UCF almost beat them. UCF has been horrible this year getting blownout in every game including Buffalo. NIU isn't going have the cakewalk to go 7-1 in the mac like everyone thinks they do. They happened to play their best game of the season on our worst. The NIU game seemed to be what this team needed. Anyone notice how we destroyed temple but they came back this week and only lost to Pitt 27-22?